Professor Donna Mead

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• Professor Donna Mead
• UK simulation in Nursing
• Education Conference

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Current Education Issues Facing UK Nurses A
selection

• Commissioning
• NMC
• Code of conduct
• Entry criteria ) Input and
• Staff Student Ratio ) driven
• Structure of Pre-Registration Curricula.
• Branch programmes
• Relationship between theory and practice.

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Educators what do they have to contribute to
practice?
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Setting the Context

• Fitness for Practice The UKCC Commission for
  Nursing Midwifery Education (UKCC, 1999)
• Recommendation 19
• To make the best use of practice placements,
  interpersonal and practice skills should be
  fostered by the use of experiential and
  problem-based learning, increased use of skills
  laboratories and access to information
  technology, particularly in clinical practice.

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The Knowledge Explosion

• Epilepsy Mortality.
• From 1980-84 to 2000-04 the number of papers on
  epilepsy and mortality increased by 681 (a
  factor of 7)
• Nursing Expertise Competence.
• From 1980-84 to 2000-04 the number of papers on
  nursing expertise and competence increased b a
  factor of 31 Whether the increase in
  publications also represents a knowledge
  explosion depends heavily on the quality of the
  papers.
• 95 of all scientists who ever lived are alive
  today.
• 90 of todays 5 year olds will go into jobs
  which do not yet exist.

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• Would we expect a law firm to employ a law
  graduate who had studied no legislation passed
  after 1980 and who could not intelligently read
  and assess new cases?

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• Would we employ an architect who used nothing
  more modern than steel and concrete?

Why then force us to produce nurses who, through
no fault of their own, would be analogous to such
inadequate graduates.
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NMC Project

• NMC, Council of Deans , Nurse Directors
  Association England in response to stakeholders
• EC directives
• 13 pilot sites across the UK

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Knowledge Explosion

• The amount of knowledge is large and growing
• 95 of all Scientists who have ever lived in the
  history of our universe are alive today
• 90 of today's 5 year olds will go into jobs
  which dont yet exist
• BLL in 1986 had 9,120 medical journals
• Histopathology had at least 36,780 articles in
  1990
• Histopathology grew 293 in the period 1966-1990
• In advanced fields 50 of all papers published
  have appeared in the last 8 years